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We all know by now that if you want an all-encompassing sampler of the breadth and diversity of the ever vibrant small press publishing scene in the UK (and beyond!)…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
It’s back! After a hugely successful first day in 2016, Small Press Day returns on Saturday July 8th. The SPD team of Amneet Johal of the Alternative Press, David Ziggy…
Another press release, another piece of welcome news about a Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’ artist getting picked up by a micropublisher… This time around it’s Josh…
Jessica Martin is another of those now established rising stars of the UK indie comics scene who you first heard about here at Broken Frontier. She was a finalist in…
“Excuse me, are you Broken Frontier?” “Yes. But my friends call me Broken…” In reality only the first part of that exchange has ever actually happened. But, such are my…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Diary comics, in all their varying forms, have often seemed to me to be an unfairly maligned subset of the autobio genre of comics so readily associated with the small…
What if your favourite soap operas were real? That was the premise of Paul B. Rainey’s Thunder Brother: Soap Division series which originally ran for six issues until 2014. Rainey…
It’s a new era at Broken Frontier and to usher in the next stage in BF’s evolution we’ve been building an expanded writing team to broaden our scope and approach…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
It’s been nearly three years since I first came across Rozi Hathaway’s work in the pages of Ravi Thornton’s multi-artist graphic memoir HOAX Psychosis Blues and immediately marked her out…
The greatest strength of Matt Boyce’s comics is his instinctive ability for conveying complex emotional states with the most economical visual clarity. That was a point I made a couple of…
A delightfully bizarre celebration of friendship and the bonds of music. Engagingly chaotic and pulsing with energy. Sometimes it seems like Centrala are one of the best kept secrets on…
‘Small Pressganged’ has prided itself over the last few years of being a platform for the most exciting new small press talent and comics craft. Discovery has been a prime…
Those of you who are long-time BF readers will probably just want to scroll down to the bottom of this piece. What follows, by way of explanation, is a little…
It may seem like just five minutes since we were all partying away in Leeds at Thought Bubble but the UK festival and convention scene has slowly crept up on us…
It’s a new era at Broken Frontier and to usher in the next stage in BF’s evolution we’ve been building an expanded writing team to broaden our scope and approach…
It’s D&D time again! The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is back this coming Tuesday March 21st with another fabulous threesome of peerless practitioners of pencilling prowess in Jamie…
One of the things we’re proudest of about our ‘Small Pressganged’ column here at Broken Frontier is its success in providing an introductory spotlight for exciting new comics talents. Indeed, that’s…
Eleanor Crewes’ The Times I Knew I Was Gay is probably better classified as a fragmentary graphic narrative than, strictly speaking, a comic. Some of the vignettes here have their…
“Lots of My Sapphic Comics Focus on Small, Intimate Moments” – Nessie Mooo Talks ‘Deathmetal’, Comics Community, and Queer Representation in the MediumJune 12, 2026
“In Order to Create Societal Change, We Have to First Imagine It” – Tyler and Wendy Chin-Tanner Talk A Wave Blue World, Their LGBTQIA+ Anthologies and Publishing with a Social PurposeJune 9, 2026
“We Wanted to Publish the Books We Wanted to Read” – Outgoing Avery Hill Co-Founder Dave White Looks Back on 14 Years at the UK’s Game-Changing Indie Comics PublisherJune 8, 2026
“There is No Singular or Correct Intersex Narrative” – LJ Nakamura on Intersex Representation and the Liberating Nature of Pulp Sci-FiJune 4, 2026
“We Want Trans and Queer Teens to Feel Seen and Understood” – Tilly Bridges and Susan Bridges on Their New Graphic Novel ‘Just Another Summer’ and the Collaborative Writing ProcessJune 2, 2026
